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** Lucille lampshades this in the pilot: "I don't care for GOB."
** Even when Lindsey is revealed to be adopted Lucille mentions she still loves Lindsey as much as her other children and even more than GOB.
* Kara "Starbuck" Thrace of the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' was The Unfavourite and apparently an only child. We learn that Starbuck's mother Socrata was in the Colonial military and Starbuck joined up largely to win her approval. When she graduated Viper school and earned her commission, her mother berates her for not being first in her class, despite managing to become an officer rather than an NCO like Socrata was.
** Not quite a straight example. Socrata was bastardly and abusive to Kara because she knew Kara had a special destiny and didn't think she was trying hard enough to live up to her natural ability.
* Jan Brady of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''.
** Jan was actually a [[Fanon]] [[Alternative Character Interpretation|interpretation]]. In her case, she was actually just [[Overshadowed by Awesome|overshadowed by Marsha]]. Now the 90's1990s Parodyparody movies, on the otherhandother hand, takestake this trope and runsrun with it.
* Curious example on ''[[Dirty Sexy Money]]''. In a first-season episode, matriarch Letitia says that Brian and Jeremy are their father's unfavorites; considering the fact that Jeremy is a drug-addicted layabout and that Brian isn't Tripp's biological son, this makes sense. But after learning about Brian's illegitimacy, Tripp starts liking him ''more,'' giving him a company job and calling him 'son' for the first time in the series.
* Possibly the example most familiar to American TV viewers, Robert from ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''. With the slight reversal that Robert is actually the elder brother himself.